neurosurgery

Major casting news: Jamie Dornan, Alec Baldwin and Christian Slater are set to star in UCP’s TV adaptation of Wondery’s hit podcast “Dr. Death.” The project, which will be a limited series and is currently being shopped by UCP, is based on the terrifying true story of Dr. Christopher Duntsch, who will be played by Dornan. The character is described...

For the sixth year in a row, Boston Children’s Hospital has been named the best pediatric care center in the country by the U.S. News and World Report. The hospital beat out Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Texas Children’s Hospital and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center for the top spot.

Emilia Clarke is opening up about her health journey. In an essay entitled “A Battle for My Life,” published on The New Yorker’s website on Thursday, the Game of Thrones star reveals that she almost died. Clarke begins the deeply personal piece in 2011, explaining that, to relieve the stress after filming the first season of the HBO series, she...

A 10-year-old Missouri boy is recovering after he was attacked by insects and tumbled from a tree, landing on a meat skewer that penetrated his skull from his face to the back of his head. But miraculously, that’s where Xavier Cunningham’s bad luck ended. The skewer had completely missed Xavier’s eye, brain, spinal cord and major blood vessels, The Kansas...

t sounds like science fiction, but a cap-like device that makes electric fields to fight cancer improved survival for the first time in more than a decade for people with deadly brain tumors, final results of a large study suggest. Many doctors are skeptical of the therapy, called tumor treating fields, and it’s not a cure. It’s also ultra-expensive —...

t sounds like science fiction, but a cap-like device that makes electric fields to fight cancer improved survival for the first time in more than a decade for people with deadly brain tumors, final results of a large study suggest. Many doctors are skeptical of the therapy, called tumor treating fields, and it’s not a cure. It’s also ultra-expensive —...

An Australian woman was hospitalized for four days after her skinny jeans cut off the blood flow to her calves and made her collapse. The 35-year-old had spent the day helping relatives move, squatting and cleaning out cabinets, and then while walking home, a neurologist said, “her feet became increasingly weak to the point where she fell.” The woman managed...